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Delta-Delta Minimum Connecting Times at LAX
(Note the below times apply only if both flights are DL-marketed; the MCTs may be different for flights marketed by other airlines)
Domestic - Domestic: 40 minutes
- If you're connecting from T2/T3 to TBIT, then the MCT is 1 hour.
Exception:
- If you're connecting from T2/T3 to TBIT, then the MCT is 1 hour, unless you're flying ATL-LAX-PPT or JFK-LAX-PPT, in which case MCT is 45 minutes even if connecting from T2/T3 to TBIT.
Exception:
- If you're coming from a Canadian airport with preclearance, it is considered a domestic arrival for MCT purposes and the domestic - domestic connection times above apply.
Exceptions:
- If you're coming from a Canadian airport with preclearance, it is considered a domestic arrival for MCT purposes and the domestic - international connection times above apply.
- If your connection is from TBIT to TBIT, the MCT is 2 hours for an international-international connection.
- If you're arriving from SYD and not connecting from TBIT to TBIT, the MCT is 1 hour, 50 minutes for an international-international connection. (If you're arriving from SYD and the connection is TBIT to TBIT, the 2 hour MCT in the bullet point above applies.)
- If you're on one of the following flight routings, and the first flight arrives into TBIT, the MCT is 1 hour, 50 minutes for an international-international connection:
- CUN-LAX-BNE
- CUN-LAX-MEL
- CUN-LAX-SJO
- CUN-LAX-SYD
- PVR-LAX-HND
- HND-LAX-LHR
Minimum Connection Transfer Time at Los Angeles (LAX): The Definitive Thread
#31
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I'm going to Tahiti for my honeymoon and need some advice about booking a flight. The AF flight to PPT leaves out of LAX at 10:30 pm. There's a flight ATL-LAX that gets in at 7:40 pm. Is this enough time, or should we be getting in earlier? If we miss this flight, there's not another one for 4 days, plus the fact that it's our honeymoon, so I want to be as sure as possible that we'll make it (without spending all day in LAX either). I've never been to LAX (or PPT for that matter), and I would really appreciate some advice.
Because there is no flight to PPT for the next four days, I would rather spend a couple of extra hours in the LAX CRC or seek a dinner at local restaurant. Unfortunately, the next earliest flight arrives almost 3 hours earlier, but that's the one I would take... if that one is cancelled, you are still going to be golden on the flight that gets in at 740P. With a potential 6 hour layover, I would look into a decent dinner at some restaurant in LA. But if the 740P flight is cancelled or extensively delayed, you might be screwed, though not in your honeymoon suite!
#32
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Is 1hr 50mins A Safe Connection at LAX?
I am not a regular poster on this board, though beginning to use my SkyTeam membership a little more.
I plan the following trip in late August:
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Thu, Aug 30 Delta Air Lines 7728
operated by ExpressJet Airlines
Depart: 4:45pm
Arrive: 6:50pm Acapulco, Mexico (ACA)
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
1 stop Economy 4hr 5min Embraer RJ135-145 View seats
Change planes. Time between flights: 1hr 50min
Delta Air Lines 7697
operated by ExpressJet Airlines
Depart: 8:40pm
Arrive: 9:55pm Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Las Vegas, NV (LAS)
Economy 1hr 15min Embraer RJ135-145 View seats
Total duration: 7hr 10min
I will have a largish bag, so will need to claim it, and have a UK passport so may experience some lines through immigration - although both flights arrive/depart the same terminal (which is why I am suffering ExpressJet ERJs to LAS).
Is this 1hr 50mins sensible and achievable connection, or would I be best advised to have a night in LAX and make the journey to LAS early the next day?
Any other tips for ExpressJet appreciated! ^
I plan the following trip in late August:
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Thu, Aug 30 Delta Air Lines 7728
operated by ExpressJet Airlines
Depart: 4:45pm
Arrive: 6:50pm Acapulco, Mexico (ACA)
Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
1 stop Economy 4hr 5min Embraer RJ135-145 View seats
Change planes. Time between flights: 1hr 50min
Delta Air Lines 7697
operated by ExpressJet Airlines
Depart: 8:40pm
Arrive: 9:55pm Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
Las Vegas, NV (LAS)
Economy 1hr 15min Embraer RJ135-145 View seats
Total duration: 7hr 10min
I will have a largish bag, so will need to claim it, and have a UK passport so may experience some lines through immigration - although both flights arrive/depart the same terminal (which is why I am suffering ExpressJet ERJs to LAS).
Is this 1hr 50mins sensible and achievable connection, or would I be best advised to have a night in LAX and make the journey to LAS early the next day?
Any other tips for ExpressJet appreciated! ^
#33
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Your 1:50 connection should be no problem whatsoever. XJet is a new Delta connection carrier and won't begin flying under the Delta Connection flag until June/July so can;t be of any help there.
#38
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The OP is apparently booked on the later flight.
The number of DL/DL Connection flights between LAX and LAS is going up to 4 as follows:
Delta 7667
7:35am LAX
8:45am LAS
Embraer 145
Delta 7699
10:50am LAX
12:00pm LAS
Embraer 145
Delta 711
7:10pm LAX
8:20pm LAS
Boeing 737-800
Delta 7697
8:40pm LAX
9:55pm LAS
Embraer 145
Note: Not all flights operate on every day of the week.
A.J.
#39
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1 hour connection at LAX?
The subject says it all. It's a legal connection time, but I'm interested in experience from people who have made mainline to mainline connections at LAX in an hour.
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Real easy. Even if you have to go from T6 to T5 (or vice-versa) it takes no more than 15 minutes. T5 is pretty small (14 gates or so) so it takes no more than 5 minutes to walk from the security checkpoint to the farthest gates in T5.
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The tunnel is open. No need to reclear security.
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Maybe it's me, but the tunnel just seems to take forever to walk through (maybe because it's all off-white and there's never anyone in there...). Still, I've done the walk from T6 to T5 plenty of times (better food over in the UA gates and I like the President's Club over there...not to mention it stays open for the 1255a redeye to ATL).
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